The banking group Absa completed its first international bond issuance in four years. This operation shows that institutional investors in the City of Wall Street favor the technical solidity of South African finance.

ABSA ranked third in South Africa in terms of income. After an eclipse of almost four years in the markets of hard currency debt, the Absa group reinvested in the markets international bonds in early December with a bond issue of 150 million dollars (around 142 million euros). Technically this operation is a issuance of Tier 2 subordinated debt due in 2036.

This return is part of a well-developed choice of issuance period for shares, the day after the issue South African sovereign of November 2025 and the improvement of the Rating perspective by the S&P agency. But this success is not limited to a simple alignment of the macroeconomic planets